1. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
4. A French abbot.
8. Inquire about.
11. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
12. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
16. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
17. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
18. A port on Alaska's southern coast from which oil is shipped to markets around the world.
20. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
23. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
26. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
28. Jordan's port.
31. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
33. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
34. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
37. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
39. A licensed medical practitioner.
41. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
42. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
44. English essayist (1775-1834).
48. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
49. South African term for `boss'.
50. Extremely pleasing.
51. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
52. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
53. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

1. Speaking a Slavic language.
2. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
3. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
4. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
5. A Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph.
6. The cry made by sheep.
7. Late time of life.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. A fraudulent business scheme.
10. God of love and erotic desire.
15. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
19. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
21. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
22. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
24. A state in northwestern North America.
25. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
27. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
29. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
30. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
32. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
35. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
36. Jordan's port.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
40. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
43. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
45. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
46. The residue that remains when something is burned.
47. A master's degree in fine arts.
48. Before noon.